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And yet still hasn't learned to look up simple facts online.
Most of the case is 1.5mm. Currently the standoffs are 3.5mm, however the cutout on the motherboard tray encompasses everywhere there's likely to be extended features on the back of the motherboard (e.g., CPU cooler backplate). The cutout allows 6.5mm of clearance to the side panel.
There are two reasons I'm aware of that GPU manufacturers overstate power requirements:
It's 1.5mm, just as it is on the M1. Falling 0.2mm outside the spec doesn't make a practical difference here - the I/O shield still fits fine.
With the power/USB outside the GPU chamber and no ODD (aka the original design) a 12" GPU like the Sapphire Tri-X card should fit just fine.
I was looking at Asus' site earlier and the DirectCU II versions of the R9 280 and above won't fit due to height (in the LRPC or M1). The DirectCU II version of the R9 270 (and below) uses a smaller design that does fit. So it's more a question about supporting those rare long cards - like the Tri-X - that aren't also too tall to fit.
Indeed, I didn't notice that about the Tri-X. The GPU is intentionally close to the side panel to ensure it's able to maintain proper airflow (in from the side, out the top/back).
It's a factory overclocked card, which will disproportionately increase power consumption over a stock card due to the voltage bump.
Modern consumer hardware scalers either do nothing that an output filter can do, or make things worse. A prime example is popular Darbee line, which does little more than modify the gamma function (and not entirely pleasantly) and add a sharpening filter. Until you are buying actual professional video processing equipment with access to a HD-SDI stream, you're not going to beat a display filter operating on the output direct from the CODEC (before chroma subsampling and leveling for output over HDMI). This becomes very obvious for things like gradient de-banding where a filter can operate in 10-bit space (which provides an advantage even on 8-bit sources due to mathematical operations performed curing decoding) without adding dithering, but lower end consumer processors are limited to the 8-bit output signal (and higher end processors merely match the capabilities of output filters). Same thing with display compensation: can be done with a 3D LUT prior to output just as easily as a £1000+ dedicated box (moreso, using automated calibration).
exactly.From Necere's internal layout post, the ODD fits into void space above the GPU (below the PCB). However, adding ODD support displaces the PCB for the front panel switch and USB ports, which ends up at the end of the GPU space, shortening the maximum possible GPU length.
You're correct that removing it won't make the case smaller. As far as I can tell, NO 290X will fit in the ODD version of the case. Not even the reference design, which seems to be just a hair too long.
Am I misreading something here? That card is still easily powered by an SFX power supply. We're beating a dead horse at this point.
A case of PBR costs you $36?!
Which leaves 180W for the rest of the system, more than enough. (And discounts the fact that other reviews were pulling ~400W from the wall with a similar setup and hundreds of people have been running their 290X on a 450W supply for some time now.)
PBR is a lousy hipster beer. Young upwardly mobile people drink craft beerI have no idea, I live in Europe and usually drink Palm.
I just googled to find what young, upwardly-mobile people drink in the US and saw that a 335ml bottle of that is $1.50, so a case must be $36. Maybe I found the Canadian price by accident
*ducks*I just googled to find what young, upwardly-mobile people drink in the US and saw that a 335ml bottle of that is $1.50, so a case must be $36. Maybe I found the Canadian price by accident
